Science 2.0: Quantum Theory Makes Big Data Manageable
One cornerstone of the Science 2.0 approach is the framework for making Big Data manageable. In fields from physics to biology, it's no longer a question of obtaining data, but managing it in ways that...
View ArticleMultifractals Point To Existence Of Unknown Physical Mechanism On The Sun
The famous sunspots on the surface of the Earth's star result from strong magnetic fields. Their numbers are an important indicator of the state of activity on the Sun. At the Institute of Nuclear...
View ArticleAre We Living In A Hologram? Is The Universe A 2-D Projection On The Cosmic...
There is not the slightest doubt that the the universe is real. It is three-dimensional. But one popular alternative notion has been the "holographic principle", which asserts that a mathematical...
View ArticleNon-Euclidean Geometries For Our Brain Grid Cells
It took human culture millennia to arrive at a mathematical formulation of non-Euclidean spaces - but that was not because of a limitation of our brains. Instead, it's likely that even the brains of...
View ArticleThe Mathematical Pattern Of Ants Marching
When ants go exploring in search of food they end up choosing collective routes that fit statistical distributions of probability, according to a team of mathematicians who analyzed the trails of a...
View ArticleWhy B.B. King Was Great: He Played Out Of Tune
There are those who believed that B.B. King wasn’t the world’s greatest guitar player, including the man himself. In a recent interview he said:I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard...
View ArticleThe Math Of Social Structure: How Birds Avoid A Collision Course
Mathematical biologist Dr. Jamie Wood wanted to know how birds collectively negotiate man-made obstacles such as wind turbines which lie in their flight paths and that led to a research project with...
View ArticleEdit Distance In Genomes - Longstanding Algorithm Worry Put To Rest
Comparing the genomes of different species — or different members of the same species — is the basis of a great deal of modern biology because DNA sequences conserved across species are likely to be...
View ArticleMathematics And Spaghetti Carbonara
I’ve come to believe that mathematics, as an investigative science, as a practical discipline and as a creative art, shares many characteristics with cookery. It’s not just spaghetti alla carbonara,...
View ArticleWeyl Points: Wanted For 86 Years
Weyl points, the 3D analogues of the structures that make graphene exceptional, were theoretically predicted in 1929. Today, an international team of Physicists from MIT and Zhejiang University, found...
View Article27 Factors To Aid In Early Detection Of Sepsis - All By Algorithm
Sepsis kills more Americans every year than AIDS, breast cancer and prostate cancer combined but it gets far less attention. Unlike those other diseases, hours can make the difference between life and...
View ArticleIs Failure To Reproduce Psychology Papers A Sign They Are Invalid?
Following one of the largest-scale scientific reproducibility investigations to date, a group of psychology researchers has reported results from an effort to replicate 100 recently published...
View ArticleWhat Brewing Coffee Can Teach Us About Modeling Anesthesia
By Michael Greshko, Inside Science– Mathematics that can describe coffeepots, forest fires and flu outbreaks may also underpin the brain’s response to anesthesia, a new study suggests.The mathematical...
View ArticleResonating Euler Spirals and Prolate Spheroids
You might call it a two-tone football. If you're a real mathematician you may be able to explain to me what the real name of the thing is. I'm not a real mathematician but I occasionally wrangle with...
View ArticleMathematically Modeling The Mind
Try to remember a phone number, and you're using what's called your sequential memory. This kind of memory, in which your mind processes a sequence of numbers, events, or ideas, underlies how people...
View ArticleHow Understanding Baseball Can Improve Earthquake Predictions
Major League Baseball can help understand why maps used to predict shaking in future earthquakes often do poorly. Earthquake hazard maps use assumptions about where, when, and how big future...
View ArticleDiscovery Of Pi In Quantum Mechanics A 'Cunning Piece Of Magic'
While most people associate the mathematical constant π (pi) with arcs and circles, mathematicians are accustomed to seeing it in a variety of fields. Two University of Rochester scientists have found...
View ArticlePoll Averaging Was No More Accurate In 2012 Than It Is Now
In 2012, the enthusiasm for poll averaging reached a fever pitch. Very few people were critical of it and instead talked about how science had taken over predictive politics. (1)I was critical of the...
View ArticleGlobal Warming Disaster Could Suffocate All Life On Earth, Say Mathematicians
Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to an estimate led by Sergei Petrovskii, Professor in Applied...
View Article'Freak' Ocean Waves Hit Without Warning, Says Math Simulation
Mariners have long spoken of 'walls of water' appearing from nowhere in the open seas, that is why freak waves are called freak waves. Oceanographers have disregarded such stories and instead suggested...
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